You’ll find naturally generated wood planks in abandoned mine shafts, villages, pillager outposts, shipwrecks, woodland mansions, and witch huts. These planks can be used to make things like fences and other craftable items you need in your Minecraft world. Here are three reasons why you should collect wood planks from abandoned mineshafts.

For Trading

Wooden planks are an important resource in the game that is used for crafting furniture and other items. They can be found naturally in abandoned mine shafts, villages, pillager outposts, shipwrecks, woodland mansions, and witch huts. Oak-wood planks are used in villages and mineshafts, dark oak trä plankor are used in abandoned mineshafts and badlands biomes, and spruce wood planks are used in hilltop farmsteads. Wooden planks can also be crafted by taking two sticks from trees or bushes and one plank of the same kind of wood that you want to make a new wooden plank with.

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For Decoration

- Oak-wood planks are used in villages and mineshafts, dark oak wood planks are used in abandoned mineshafts and badlands biomes, and spruce wood planks are found only in the woodland mansion. 

- The easiest way to obtain a stack of wood is to find it naturally generated inside abandoned mine shafts. 

- You can collect enough hardwood by mining for one hour to cover your first few rooms. 

- To begin construction you need at least 10 hardwood wooden floor-wide planks to make the frame of a room. 

- The best option for finding these is looking under the surface with a mattock while exploring an abandoned mineshaft.

For Crafting

Crafting the upper floor of a building requires the use of laminating flooring wide planks. Laminating flooring is made up of two sections that can be placed side-by-side and then glued together for a wider board. Laminate wood is created by taking off the top layers of wood and gluing to form layers. This type of tunna plankor is easy to maintain because if any part breaks or starts to decay, you only have to remove it and place down new laminate layers. The best materials that are used for crafting this type of board are oak, dark oak, and spruce wood planks.

As Fuel


Abandoned mineshaft wood planks are a fantastic source of fuel for heating and cooking. Dark oak wood planks provide significantly more durability, but this type of plank can only be found in the abandoned mineshaft biome. If you're interested in buying planks, take advantage of these locations to find the ones that fit your needs!